There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.